I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 101 - 57: A New Game with Normal Pricing?_2

Chapter 101: Chapter 57: A New Game with Normal Pricing?_2

10,000 exp was charged in, and it only increased half of the experience bar for Level 6 of the system.

It seems like another game would be needed to advance to Level 7.

Forget it, let’s just open the blind box now.

Two platinum-level blind boxes, two resets.

Equivalent to having four opportunities.

For the first blind box, Ke Jin tried entering the keyword "card-drawing".

"Congratulations, you have successfully obtained a D-ranked card-drawing game—Dreamy Magical Girl!"

What... What is this?

Ke Jin was baffled.

Is this thing an Earth product?

But then again, considering the sheer number of games on Earth and the fact that the system includes all games,

it’s normal for me not to have heard of it.

However, seeing that it’s only D-ranked, I won’t consider it seriously.

Reset!

"Congratulations, you have successfully obtained a B-ranked card-drawing game—Fgo!"

emmmm...

This one won’t do either.

The gameplay is almost zero, completely supported by the players’ kitchen power.

Moreover, Fgo’s fleeting popularity at the time was greatly associated with the anime IP it was based on.

The system only gave me two months of indulgence time.

Two months to make every Blue Star player take the vast world of the Fate series to heart?

I’d sooner convince all Blue Star players that I am Emperor Qin Shi Himself.

The first blind box was straight-up junk.

But on second thought, Fgo could still be thrown into the fusion platform to randomly smelt a new game, so it’s not a total loss.

I placed it into my item bar.

Then I took out the second blind box straight away.

Ke Jin felt that it was time to change his approach.

The card-drawing keyword is still too broad, and it’s easy to get something undesirable.

"Let’s try tower defense."

After entering the keyword, a system prompt quickly appeared.

"Congratulations, you have successfully obtained a B-ranked tower defense game—Defend the Carrot!"

Looking at the rather juvenile art style of the game in front of him, Ke Jin fell into contemplation.

This one might not be too bad...

If it was about tackling low-spending challenges, Ke Jin would have chosen it indeed.

But now, it’s indulgence meal time.

"So..." Looking at the only chance left.

Ke Jin swallowed hard, suddenly a bold idea sprang to mind!

He quickly typed ’Arknights’ into the system’s panel.

Click confirm!

"Congratulations, you have obtained an A-ranked game planning—Arknights!"

God damn! It actually worked!

And it seemed as though this keyword even silenced the system.

When drawing other games, it would display XX type at least.

But when it came to Arknights, it just stopped displaying the game type altogether.

I suppose the system had been contemplating what exactly a ’foot-emphasizing’ game is.

After an intense search, it must have barely made a connection to "Arknights".

Yep, sounds about right.

Who would’ve thought, Brother Tong Zi, are you...?

...

Ultimately, I narrowly but successfully chose the game I wanted to make.

This just goes to show that one keyword is still not stable enough—there’s a high chance of encountering a hitch.

It seems that to accurately and infallibly obtain a game, one must keep doing tasks to enhance the system level.

With his mind made up, Ke Jin called for Gou Chehua.

The position of secretary was vacant for the time being, so for now, both large and small matters had to be entrusted to Gou Chehua to handle. Fortunately, he has always been diligENT and busy, which made Ke Jin feel somewhat guilty.

During this time, Ke Jin also tried posting for a secretary recruitment, pairing it with the Assistant Search Function to find a suitable secretary assistant.

But it was all to no avail.

During the interviews, some candidates appeared gentle and lovely on the surface.

No problem in communication either.

But one glance at their personal introductions through the system left me speechless.

Almost all of them were thinking about how to dress up all fancy to make the overbearing CEO fall in love with them, how to seduce the CEO.

So you’re telling me you guys do nothing productive all day, just thinking about seducing around, eh?

Sit on an elevator and expect to hit the top, that’s it?

No choice but to keep taxing Huazi for a while longer.

"Mr. Ke, is the new game plan ready?" Once you learn something, it becomes easier the second time. Gou Chehua realized that this boss of his company is usually not too concerned about profits or turnovers.

Nine out of ten times he calls him into the office, it’s to discuss new games.

Quite the Idea King he is.

But there’s no denying it.

Every game that Mr. Ke conceptualizes is brilliant.

Take the recent "Wind Traveler" for example.

Gou Chehua thought that this game would be a definite flop once developed.

A narrative game, who would play that!

But against all expectations, it blew up in the gaming circle within just 10 days. Not only was its popularity off the charts, but it also sold an impressive 150,000 copies.

Continuing with this trend, selling approximately 250,000 copies in the first month shouldn’t be an issue.

That’s an instant 20 million big ones back to the company!

No channel, no marketing, a narrative game that breaks even with 20 million in a month’s time?

It’s a natural contrast with another narrative game that had previously only made 1800 yuan.

It even started a minor trend where a handful of companies began to pivot towards narrative games. Gou Chehua knew of at least five or six companies that had started projects.

Mr. Ke was simply born for the gaming industry!

"Yes, this time we are doing a card-drawing game. Here’s the plan, take a look." Ke Jin pushed the planning book of "Arknights" towards Gou Chehua.

"Card-drawing?" Gou Chehua was briefly surprised.

And he was thinking...

Has Mr. Ke run out of inspiration?

Card-drawing games don’t seem like Mr. Ke’s style.

Besides, card-drawing games are so competitive now... even though the last few releases have built up quite a reputation among players.